Aug 11, 2007

Abu Gonzales Visits Baghdad...

How Quaint.

AG Gonzales arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for his third trip to Iraq to meet with department officials who have been there to help fashion the country's legal system.

"I am pleased to see firsthand...the progress that the men and women of the Justice Department have made to rebuild Iraq's legal system and law enforcement infrastructure while affording all Iraqi citizens the full protection and rights of the Second Amendment," Gonzales said in a statement released by the department.

His optimistic assessment came despite the frequent sectarian lawlessness and killings in the country. <more>

FLASHBACK- "In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."

Gonzales also argued that dropping Geneva would allow the president to "preserve his flexibility" in the war on terror. His reasoning? That U.S. officials might otherwise be subject to war-crimes prosecutions under the Geneva Conventions. Gonzales said he feared "prosecutors and independent counsels who may in the future decide to pursue unwarranted charges" based on a 1996 U.S. law that bars "war crimes," which were defined to include "any grave breach" of the Geneva Conventions. As to arguments that U.S. soldiers might suffer abuses themselves if Washington did not observe the conventions, Gonzales argued wishfully to Bush that "your policy of providing humane treatment to enemy detainees gives us the credibility to insist on like treatment for our soldiers."

In Ohio 2004, the arsenal of dirty tricks exploded. Based in Columbus, we have documented more than a hundred different tactics used to steal the 20 electoral votes that gave Bush a second term. More are still surfacing. As a result of the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal lawsuit (in which we are plaintiff and attorney) we have now been informed that 56 of the 88 counties in Ohio violated federal law by destroying election records, thus preventing a definitive historical recount.

As in 2000, a compliant Democrat (John Kerry) allowed the coup to proceed.

For 2008 we expect the list of vote theft maneuvers to escalate yet again. We are already witnessing a coordinated nationwide drive to destroy voter registration organizations and to disenfranchise millions of minority, poor and young voters.

Too bad Gonzales doesn't visit the Abu Ghraib site, perhaps again. Maybe when he goes home to his child, he will see the importance of breaking the cycle and blowback. Violence, lies, manipulation and cover-ups didn't work for the last 30-60 years either. They just come back into power or worse, they pass down the cycle of stinking thinking to their children/grandchildren.

The balance of power in this equation is not on the side of the electorate, as Bush/Gore showed you.

This is the right time. We must strike while the iron is hot. Courage. Bush and his minions wouldn't dare to toy with the '08 elections if PJF was the Candidate. After 2008, we may as well address future presidents as "Emperor."

(It is possible. It's not too late to get Pat Fitz on the ballot. Ballot access will require petitions, but also cooperation from the officials who guard ballot access, and they are beholding to the elected officials already Seated.)

Each factor must be courted in the appropriate manner. Each factor is necessary to achieve "President Patrick J. Fitzgerald."

Each factor has several parts.

(a) the electorate = voters + media + local government.

The State's, County's, Municipality's, elected officials, all maintain voter data-bases AND close ties with the also-rans. By courting local government, you also have courted a loyal/beholding voter.

By courting the (d) media, you get equal opportunity access to all voters. Earned media, not paid media. As much as possible, avoid paid media as they are media whores, just as likely to hurt you as to help you.

BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME

It takes a while, but eventually if you build a media-machine, the media will come to you. Example: Thank you Markos of Kos, for being there. Don't get hung up on Dem or Rep label for PJF for President.

This is the broad outline.

I have not icluded how to court the Governors or the oligarchs. (Their numbers are small, [ 50 Governors + 1,000 ruling oligarchs (think 20 from each State) + the electorate] = President Patrick J. Fitzgerald in 2008 ). This requires a personal touch, that is not conducive to en masse communications. They are like berries that: ripen at different times and need just-the-right touch at just-the-right time.

This is the broad strategy.

1. Get Patrick Fitzgerald on the ballot in all 50 States.

2. Keep Patrick Fitzgerald on the ballot in all 50 States.

3. Work the formula:

Pres. PJF = a+b+c+d

The tactics are trade secrets.

Do we have the intelligence, the courage and the heart, to put Pat Fitz on the Road To The Whitehouse?

C.A.,I see all the present candidates dissapoint you, but perhaps you should look for more accessible replacements.

There's got to be other people out there with qualities similar to PJF, who are willing and able to jump into the political arena.

Perhaps we should make election finance reform a priority. We can't continue selling this country to the highest bidder.

The qualities that we seek in a leader are not found in men who has spent their lives wheeling and dealing at arms lenght increasing their personal fortunes. Perhaps that is why rely so much on those with inherited wealth...who ultimately can't relate to the rest of the country.

We now know that brains is not a job requirement. But in our system, the candidates are controlled by the parties and the parties are controlled by some elements within.

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